A 2016 photo shows the cap for a containment building for the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, South Carolina. The construction of two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer site has been abandoned. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. customers have paid about $2 billion toward the company's debt on the project.

Dominion announced Wednesday it would make immediate $1,000 cash payments to SCANA Corp. customers within 90 days of closing its purchase of the company.

SCANA has been reeling since announcing last summer its subsidiary, South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., was abandoning construction of two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. Via a series of rate hikes, SCE&G customers have paid about $2 billion toward the company’s debt on the project.